Entry Description: I admire trees as they are one of the most marvelous beings in this world. Not that humans and other animals are not incredible too, but trees fascinate me for their silent suffering. No one has ever heard a tree complain, and I am sure they also suffer with the war we have declared to them. Just in Amazon Forest we cut 2000 trees every day, and we have reached a point where it is difficult to turn back. This photo is my sincere tribute to the lonely tree that lives in the sea, with such a melancholic beauty, that lives standing strong and will die, honorably, standing tall.

About Photographer: ​João Galamba was born in 1989 in Portugal and in 2013 he moved to Timor-Leste (East Timor). Since he have started making photos he was awarded in over 30 photo contests, portuguese and international, including best portuguese photographer in Sony World Awards 2014 and PSA Silver in Nature Category in Swiss International Photo Contest. In May 2017 he published my first photo book, with more than 200 pages filled with photos of Timor-Leste, with preface of Xanana Gusmão (former leader of timorese resistance against indonesian occupation, then former President and Prime-Minister after independence) and published by Porto Editora, the biggest portuguese publisher house.